3+ years of engineering team management experience - 7+ years of engineering experience - 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience - knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations - experience partnering with product or program management teams
- experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
- experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of software engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers
- bachelor's degree
- experience developing and executing a software roadmap
- experience managing platforms or infrastructure software systems
- experience leading highly-skilled software engineering teams
- experience forming teams and recruiting software engineers
- experience developing careers with highly-skilled software engineering teams
- experience with machine learning (classification, collaborative filtering)
- excellent verbal and written communication skills
- a love of music!